While international brands such as McDonald’s and Starbucks have struggled to penetrate the Israeli market, Spotify has expressed confidence in its recent entry. And after years of eager anticipation, Israelis are hoping the Swedish company gets it right. On the back of extensive market research, data analysis, partnerships with local music industry leaders, tastemakers, and...

A l'occasion de la publication des études One Global V1 2018 et One 2017, puremedias.com a interrogé le directeur délégué au pôle News du "Figaro"...

DUBLIN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The ability of firms such as Facebook to easily transfer Europeans' data to the United States was plunged into legal limbo on Thursday when the Irish High Court asked the EU's top court for a detailed assessment of whether the methods were legal...

10% of US broadband households switched, downgraded, or cancelled their pay-TV service in past 12 months, according to Parks Associates. The company’s 360 View: Access and Entertainment Services in US Broadband Households reveals that 10% of US broadband households switched providers, downgraded their service, or cancelled pay-TV service in the past 12 months, primarily ...

HBO programming chief Casey Bloys had some criticism for the runaway spending of his network's streaming rivals, Netflix and Amazon, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Bloys speculated that widespread, exorbitant TV spending could mean that the industry is "in a bubble."
He said that his rivals' spending feels like "irrational exuberance," in a reference to Alan Greenspan's label for the dot-com bubble of the 1990s.
HBO programming chief Casey Bloys had a degree of criticism for the big spending of his network's streaming-based rivals, Netflix and Amazon, in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
In a conversation centered on the million-dollar salaries HBO is paying stars Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon for a second season of its hit series "Big Little Lies," Bloys also discussed the record-breaking, nine-figure contracts Netflix has given to successful showrunners Ryan Murphy and Shonda Rhimes in the past year...

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Mark Zuckerberg to resign — or be pushed out.
The Facebook co-founder and chief executive said he’s still the right man to lead the company despite its recent turmoil, on a conference call with the media on Wednesday afternoon. When asked if he’s best equipped to steer Facebook, Zuckerberg answered with a quick “yes,” before expanding.
“I think life is about learning from the mistakes and figuring out what you need to do to move forward,” said Zuckerberg. “I think the reality of a lot of this is that when you’re building something like Facebook that is unprecedented in the world, there are going to be things that you mess up. And if we’d gotten this right, we’d have messed something else up.”
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Amazon Prime Video has acquired more than 40 premium French series and films from several key French distribution companies to feed the library of Prime Video in France, which launched at the end of 2016. The streaming giant signed deals with TF1 Droits Audiovisuels, France TV Distribution, AB Droits Audiovisuels, Newen Distribution, EuropaCorp, About Premium […] LIEN A INSERER DANS LE CHAMPS DE SOURCE : ?

Début mai, les utilisateurs de produits Apple, qui sont généralement aussi titulaires d'un identifiant Apple, pourront se rendre sur le portail de gestion de leur compte pour y télécharger une copie de toutes les données stockées sur les serveurs du constructeur. Bloomberg explique également que le site permettra à l'utilisateur de modifier les informations personnelles le concernant, de désactiver temporairement leur compte, et de le supprimer.

Si l'on peut déjà éditer une partie de son profil depuis le site d'Apple, en télécharger les données exige actuellement d'en passer directement par le constructeur. Si l'Europe est la première concernée par ces nouveautés (le reste du monde le sera par la suite), c'est pour une bonne raison : c'est à partir du 25 mai qu'entre en vigueur dans l'Union européenne le règlement géné ...

Chez SFR, un rapport commandé à un cabinet d'audit se montre extrêmement critique sur la stratégie du groupe, et notamment sur ses massives suppressions de poste, jugées injustifiées.
L’article SFR : un rapport interne assassine la stratégie du groupe et les suppressions de poste est apparu en premier sur Freenews...

About a fifth (21%) of US respondents in a recent survey said they subscribe to an online video service through their pay-TV provider, up from just 10% a year ago...

What timing! Snapchat is building a way for people to use their Snapchat account to connect with third-party apps. The idea, in theory, would let Snapchat users grant outside companies access to their Snapchat data to help personalize other services.
If that’s the case — and it looks like it is, based on these screenshots Mashable published on Tuesday — it would mean that Snap is building out the same kind of API that just got Facebook into a whole mess of trouble.
You can’t make these things up.
Mashable saw a beta version of Snapchat with a new section called “Connected Apps,” with text that reads, “These apps are connected to your Snapchat account. Choose an app to control what it has access to.”
Snapchat currently has an advertising API so people can buy ads through third-party dashboards, but it doesn’t let people use their Snapchat account on other apps, or help people connect with their Snapchat friends on other platforms...

Dominique Delport, the former global managing director at Havas Group and head of Vivendi Content, has been appointed Vice Media’s president of international and chief revenue officer. Variety first reported that Delport was in line to become Vice’s president of international earlier this month. Delport will report directly to Nancy Dubuc, who has been tapped...

During the second half of the 1980s, the arrival of the compact disc turned the music business into a money-spinning juggernaut, with the format moving from essentially zero early in the decade to 400 million units produced in 1988 alone. But that explosive growth was driven less by superstars of the era — although ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg will not answer questions from British lawmakers over how millions of users' data got into the hands of political consultancy Cambridge Analytica as the company faces further pressure on both sides of the Atlantic...

Deezer fait son entrée au classement 2018 des entreprises préférées des étudiants réalisé par Universum. Dans le même temps, Amazon progresse. Mais le numérique ne séduit pas collectivement ces jeunes ssus des écoles de commerce et d'ingnéieurs qui préfèrent l'aérospatial ou le ...

L’affaire Cambridge Analytica est pleine de rebondissements et le #DeleteFacebook continue de se propager, Facebook ne semble vraiment pas en bonne posture. Et pour rajouter un peu d’huile sur le feu, un utilisateur aurait découvert en téléchargeant ses données Facebook, que le réseau social gardait des traces des ses appels et SMS. Entre l’annuaire inversé ...

Snapchat has moved into the true crime genre after launching its first original in the space. The social media company has ordered True Crime, a series of 4 minute documentaries that will each look at a different crime, including murders and disappearances.
I understand that the show, which launches today in English-speaking markets, is being produced by Condé Nast's video team. Each episode will focus on a different case. It was ordered by Snap's head of original content…

29 ans exactement après que Tim Berners-Lee ait lancé l'idée du World Wide Web, le voici qui lance une mise en garde, selon laquelle l'internet est toujours davantage dominé par une poignée d'acteurs en vue. "Il en résulte que les vingt prochaines années seront moins innovantes que les vingt dernières." ...

MILAN (Reuters) - Iliad se lancera d'ici cet été sur le marché italien, où l'opérateur télécoms français compte devenir un acteur "important", a déclaré le responsable de ses activités en Italie dans une interview publiée mardi par le quotidien La Repubblica...

It looks like Facebook’s U.S. user growth has officially peaked. It’s starting to feel official: Facebook’s U.S. audience is as big as it’s going to get.
Facebook is massive in this country. More than two-thirds of Americans, specifically 68 percent, use the service, according to new research from Pew Research Center.
The troubling news: If you’re a Facebook investor, that number hasn’t increased over the past two years. Roughly 68 percent of U.S. adults used Facebook in 2016, too.

This shouldn’t come as a total shock. Facebook reported its first quarter-over-quarter decline in daily users in the U.S. and Canada at the end of 2017. And while the decline was small, just 700,000 users, it served as a red flag that the company may finally be tapped out in its most valuable market.
Facebook CFO Dave Wehner may disagree. Speaking at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom Conference on Wednesday he addressed the decline in North Amer ...

It probably won’t look like this for long. The media landscape used to be straightforward: Content companies — studios — made stuff — TV shows and movies — and sold it to pay TV distributors, who sold it to consumers.
Now things are up for grabs: Netflix buys stuff from the studios, but it’s making its own stuff, too, and it’s selling it directly to consumers. That’s one of the reasons older media companies are trying to compete by consolidating. And new distributors like Verizon and AT&T are getting in on the action. AT&T, for instance, wants to merge with Time Warner.
Meanwhile, giant tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple that used to be on the sidelines are getting closer and closer to the action.
To help sort this all out, we’ve created a diagram that organizes distributors, content companies and internet video companies by market cap and their main lines of business.
Here’s what the Big Media universe cu ...

Le câblo-opérateur américain ComCast, qui avait jeté l'éponge en décembre dans la course au rachat d'une partie du groupe 21st Century Fox, envisagerait de relancer son projet d'acquisition bien que Disney soit déjà à la manoeuvre, selon le WSJ dimanche...

Rhapsody International announced that it has named Bill Patrizio as President and CEO their Napster streaming service. Patrizio is no stranger to the role and had been appointed as the interim CEO of the company in May 2017, following the departure of Mike Davis from the position amid a restructuring...

Face à l'escalade du conflit opposant TF1 aux diffuseurs (Orange, Free, Canal+...), une pétition ayant recueilli plus de 15 000 signatures demande au gouvernement d'intervenir...

Apple today has further expanded its TV application on iOS and tvOS. Following the addition of a dedicated Sports section a few months ago, users can now use the TV app to access live streaming news content from several different sources…
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After Tuesday's triumphant launch of a Falcon Heavy rocket by Elon Musk's SpaceX, David Bowie streams jumped 42% on Spotify globally. The launch of the rocket, which features a dummy sitting in a Tesla Roaster listening to David Bowie, prompted a surge in streams of the late singer's space-themed repertoire:...

An ex-YouTube insider reveals how its recommendation algorithm promotes divisive clips and conspiracy videos. Did they harm Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency?The methodology behind this story It was one of January’s most viral videos. Logan Paul, a YouTube celebrity, stumbles across a dead man hanging from a tree. The 22-year-old, who is in a Japanese forest famous as a suicide spot, is visibly shocked, then amused. “Dude, his hands are purple,” he says, before turning to his friends and giggling. “You never stand next to a dead guy?”Paul, who has 16 million mostly teen subscribers to his YouTube channel, removed the video from YouTube 24 hours later amid a furious backlash. It was still long enough for the footage to receive 6m views and a spot on YouTube’s coveted list of trending videos...